A Timeless Gift
By One Kind Act in Being Kind,Daily Acts of Kindness,Kindness,One Kind Act | 0 comments
Every day I pass by a homeless man on the street near where I attend college. He tells me ‘hello’ in a cheerful manner, and I always say it back. I give him any extra change I have.
He always wears a watch. Not an expensive watch by any means, but it serves its purpose. One day I noticed he wasn’t wearing it anymore. I asked him why and he looked down and told me that the battery had died so he threw it away. I knew he couldn’t afford a new battery and he certainly couldn’t afford a new watch. He stayed on my mind all day, and I knew what I had to do. I went out and bought him a watch. Not an expensive one, but one that was very similar to the one he had.
When I saw him the next day, he was smiling and cheerful as ever. When I bent down to put some change in his cup, I also dropped in the watch. I didn’t say anything about it. I just smiled at him and kept on walking. He didn’t even notice it until I had walked on. I looked back and watched as he pulled the watch from the cup. He looked towards me and I just smiled and nodded. He put the watch on with a big smile on his face.
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